http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:25:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1307 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1307#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:46:11 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1307 With the long dark nights and wet weather of winter, it seemed a good idea to do something to make the car a bit more easily visible at night.  While the wheels are painted silver and the side sills have been left bare in their galvanised coat, the black paint makes the vehicle harder to [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1307/feed 3 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1112 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1112#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:44:27 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1112 The recent accident was a bit of a wake up call to improve my rear lighting. Even though the car that I hit was not indicating and didn’t have its brake lights on, the incident highlighted that clear and obvious brake lights would be a significant improvement over the rather pathetic lights fitted to [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1112/feed 2 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1108 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1108#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:35 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1108 Apart from the plastic wheel arch spat, which has a small 3″ gouge, all the accident damage had been rectified. This included fitting new fog and reverse lights on the right hand side, new chequer plates, a new tub cross member and a new reversing sensor system (the old system had a wrecked sensor [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1108/feed 0 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1104 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1104#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:33:55 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1104 Topping up the gearbox was made far easier and far less messy by retro-fitting the SII top-fill cover a while ago, but there was still the complication of needing to remove the filler plug from the side of the box to check the level. Since the transfer box oil level on SII and SIII Land Rovers [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1104/feed 6 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1086 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1086#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:31:42 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1086 All the repair work is done, and it’s just a matter of finishing refitting all the external parts. The paint work came up beautifully, with no trace of the accident visible. The chequer plate panels need fixing in place, and without them, the panels look very deep behind the wheel arch (they are the correct [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1086/feed 0